Robert Deaton wrote:
I think its a good case for leaving it in 2.1 and indefinitely. Like I said before, even if we put a giant glaring message saying "We now recommend the use of the XML export." Or, although this would never happen, we could remove it from future versions and supply a seperate upgrade package which will always include the latest version of the plugin for just this purpose.
For a major release we can note the change in the announcement post. We've done in the past when removing plugins and it seems to have worked well. I remember a huge ruckus when Markdown/Textile was removed.
Hopefully by that point someone will have picked development back up on the abandoned plugin or we can point to a feature-equivalent alternative for creating SQL dumps. (Though I suppose if not, we can just point people to phpMyAdmin.)
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